Posts Tagged ‘Logistics’
U.S. Bribes the Shinwari Tribe, along Main Supply Route to Kabul
UPI | By Lawrence Sellin | 3 February 2010 Outside View: Governance and exit strategies in Afghanistan HELSINKI, Finland, Feb. 3 (UPI) -- The U.S. military recently announced that the elders of the Shinwari tribe, which comprises 600,000 people in Nangarhar province and spans the Afghan-Pakistan border, signed an agreement to keep the Taliban [...]
3rd Annual Defence Logistics Conference to be Held in Abu Dhabi, 24-27 January 2010
PR Newswire |14 January 2010 The Region's Leading Conference in Military Logistics for 2010 3rd Annual Defence Logistics Middle East, 24 to 27 January, Armed Forces Officers Club, Abu Dhabi DUBAI, January 14 — One of the least publicised elements of the cost of the fighting in Afghanistan and Iraq is the need to transport almost all the [...]
Hybrid Air Vehicles (HAVs): Intra-Theatre Airlift Technology in the Works
As the ongoing U.S. military build-up in the "Af/Pak" theatre proceeds, including through redeployment from Iraq, innovative technologies are being explored to meet the consequent logistics requirements of long-term occupation; and to address intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance (ISR) needs (on ISR, see here, here, here). In particular, [...]
Russia, U.S. to sign military cooperation, Afghan transit deals
MOSCOW, July 3 (RIA Novosti) - Russia and the U.S. will sign deals expanding bilateral military ties and on transit of military supplies via Russia to U.S. troops in Afghanistan during the U.S. president's visit to Moscow, a Kremlin aide said. (more...)
